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Blackwood Small Breed Grain-Free Turkey & Lentils Recipe All Life Stages Dry Dog Food, 10-lb bag
Blackwood

Small Breed Grain-Free Turkey & Lentils Recipe All Life Stages Dry Dog Food, 10-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $3.70/lb

Blackwood Small Breed Grain-Free Turkey & Lentils Recipe All Life Stages Dry Dog Food, 10-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 45/100 (C) with Fair evidence. 1 controversial ingredient flagged. Score capped at 64 due to DCM-pulse trigger.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Reasonable protein quality. turkey delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).

FQI

Named fresh meat paired with same-species meal, a strong extrusion architecture.

STACK

Score capped at 64 due to DCM-pulse trigger.

CAP why?

Contains high legume stacking. Three or more pulse-family ingredients in top 10. Split-ingredient evidence of pea/lentil/chickpea reliance..

CIP

Controversial ingredients · 1

  • sodium selenite
    Synthetic selenium source. Selenium is essential, but sodium selenite has a narrower safety margin than organic alternatives like selenium yeast. Better-formulated foods use the organic form.

Every flagged ingredient has a published basis (confirmed harm / regulatory action / precautionary). See methodology →

Guaranteed analysis
Protein
28%
min
Fat
15%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
48 total
  1. 1 turkey
  2. 2 turkey meal
  3. 3 peas
  4. 4 lentils
  5. 5 fava beans
  6. 6 canola oil
  7. 7 tapioca
  8. 8 brewers dried yeast
  9. 9 flaxseed
  10. 10 natural flavor
  11. 11 menhaden fish oil
  12. 12 dried beet pulp
  13. 13 carrots
  14. 14 dicalcium phosphate
  15. 15 salt
  16. 16 potassium chloride
  17. 17 sodium triphosphate
  18. 18 choline chloride
  19. 19 dl-methionine
  20. 20 l-lysine
  21. 21 taurine
  22. 22 fructooligosaccharide
  23. 23 mixed tocopherols
  24. 24 yucca schidigera extract
  25. 25 calcium carbonate

Showing first 25 of 48. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.